I had the great pleasure of attending the author Elif Safak’s Room for Rumi event last night which brought her engaging new novel: The Forty Rules of Love: A novel of Rumi to life through a literary exchange. It was a stimulating discussion about mysticism, faith, sufism, writing, hope and love. The Asia House literature festival (9-26th May) is a jam packed event covering stories and literary journeys from many
Anthropomorphism Thinking with animals : new perspectives on anthropomorphism / edited by Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman. Art & Artefacts Making and growing : anthropological studies of organisms and artefacts / by Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold. Australasia The Black pacific : anti-colonial struggles and oceanic connections / Robbie Shilliam. Community Community, cosmopolitanism and the problem of human commonality / Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport. East Asia Seeing transnationally :
Books Africa The Moroccan women’s rights movement / Amy Young Evrard. Commercial Law Comparative commercial contracts : law, culture and economic development / by Boris Kozolchyk, Evo DeConcini Comparative Law Comparative law / Mathias Siems. An introduction to comparative law theory and method / Geoffrey Samuel. The method and culture of comparative law : essays in honour of Mark Van Hoecke / edited by Maurice Adams and Dirk Heirbaut. East
General and thematic The true history of tea / Victor H. Mair & Erling Hoh Trophies, relics and curios? : Missionary heritage from Africa and the Pacific / edited by Karen Jacobs, Chantal Knowles, Chris Wingfield Guantánamo diary / Mohamedou Ould Slahi ; introduction by Larry Siems ; edited by Larry Siems Case studies in transmission / Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Ilkka Lindstedt, Robert Rollinger und Raija Mattila (Hgg.) The British industrial
Comparative and thematic Material culture and Asian religions: text, image, object / edited by Benjamin J. Fleming and Richard D. Mann. Objects of worship in South Asian religions: forms, practices and meanings / edited by Knut A. Jacobsen, Mikael Aktor, Kristina Myrvold The family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpretations / Carol Bakhos Unbelievable: why we believe and why we don’t / Graham Ward. Religion in development: rewriting the
General & Comparative Farewell to Salonika: city at the crossroads / Leon Sciaky. Transatlantic slavery: an introduction / [text by Richard Benjamin … and David Fleming]. Borders: a very short introduction / Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen. Red stamps and gold stars: fieldwork dilemmas in upland socialist Asia / edited by Sarah Turner Early modern things: objects and their histories, 1500-1800 / edited by Paula Findlen. Medicine and colonialism:
Origins of Cuban music and dance : changüí / Benjamin Lapidus. East Asian cinemas : regional flows and global transformations / edited by Vivian P.Y. Lee. Film and stereotype : a challenge for cinema and theory / Jörg Schweinitz ; translated by Laura Schleussner. New media / edited by Leah A. Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone. Understanding fandom : an introduction to the study of media fan culture / by Mark
Macau: the formation of a global city / edited by C.X. George Wei. Cisneros y la conquista española del norte de África : cruzada, política y arte de la guerra / Beatriz Alonso Acero. Research methods for history / edited by Simon Gunn and Lucy Faire. [also available as an e-book from ebrary] From reliable sources: an introduction to historical methods / Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier. Women shall not
Kami ways in nationalist territory : Shinto studies in prewar Japan and the west / edited by Bernhard Scheid, with Kate Wildman Nakai. Anarchist modernity : cooperatism and Japanese-Russian intellectual relations in modern Japan / Sho Konishi. Japan, the US, and regional institution-building in the new Asia : when identity matters / Kuniko Ashizawa. Japanese/Korean linguistics. Vol. 20 / edited by Bjarke Frellesvig and Peter Sells. Fighting for the enemy
The making of Korean Christianity : Protestant encounters with Korean religions, 1876-1915 / Sung-Deuk Oak. Practising feminism in South Korea / Kyungja Jung. Korean political and economic development : crisis, security, and institutional rebalancing / Jongryn Mo and Barry R. Weingast. Japanese/Korean linguistics. Vol. 20 / edited by Bjarke Frellesvig and Peter Sells. A resource for Korean grammar instruction / Mee-Jeong Park and Sung-Ock S. Sohn. Hwang Byungki : traditional
